Reading, praying, singing, and memorising the words of Scripture are character-forming, life-directing, and transformative. This is a good reminder for me at the start of 2023. Happy New Year Douthat: The Americanization of Religion December 22, 2022Culture,SpiritualityPost-Christian,Spirituality ...
This is a little tricky to picture in our minds, because we often think of an altar as a little platform, but you could probably think of this more as what we call a grill or a grate. The fire beneath the grill was to be kept continually burning.Later on the narrativethe sons of A...
And now we’re sitting around doing nothing about it. Oh, we might be in the temple day in and day out. We might be meeting in fellowship and even praying together. But we’re not reaching out to the world. I wonder what happens when the Spirit comes down as tongues of fire and ...
Do beware only of praying only for a blessing. Let us care for the obedience, God will care for the blessing. Let my one thought as a Christian be, how I can obey and please my God perfectly. 6. The next new beginning we have is in the appointment of kings in Israel. In the sto...
When you pray to Christ as the Alpha and the Omega, you are praying to the One who is, who was, and who is to come. He is our all-sufficient Lord, who will not fail to complete the good work he has begun in us. Key Scripture: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and...
By praying and entreating others to make prayers for them, by continually giving to the poor on their behalf.” John Chrysostom, Homilies on Phillipians, 3 (ante A.D. 404). “If the baptized person fulfills the obligations demanded of a Christian, he does well. If he does not–provide...
Jeff and I have talked a lot about going back to the States. I will be honest, I have been hoping and wishing and praying for God to lead me down a different path, but He has not yet; as of now, all paths lead to Madison. So that is where we will go. I will say that it ...
But, we don’t go looking for these things to happen to us unless we are the ones in need of help, unless we are the ones searching, begging, and praying for a miracle. But, what if… What if that very rude store clerk that waited on you today and made you feel stupid was ...
As far back as he could remember, Jim’s Dad read to him. Nightly, many good books, including the Bible, brought peace and understanding to Jim. Dad taught him how to pray. In the morning, Jim would see his Dad on his knees at the window, praying to God. ...
that would be about 19 hours until they arrived at Joppa. Time enough for a short sleep of 4 to 7 hours.“The next day as they wereon their journey and drew near the city,”Peter was on a rooftop praying. He was very hungry and while he waited for lunch to be prepared, he went...